Burkina Faso’s Health Ministry says this year the number of reported infections is more than ten fold the number of infections from 1997 onward.
It says by the first week of April more than 19,000 infections and 150 deaths had been reported.

A global initiative go combat measles says countries that are able to immunize only 80% of their population sustain outbreaks about every three to four years.

But countries that are able to immunize 95% have not reported any outbreaks in recent years.

thanks for your comment and for checking out the site! so i looked into your comment, and this is what I found out….

the measles vaccine is only 85% effective. Which means, to calculate the true coverage of the vaccine, you have to multiply 85% by the reported immunization coverage statistic. So when a government says 80% of the population immunised it really mean only 68% of the population and when it says 95% of the population it means 80%.

Here is some information that might be helpful in regards to the possible reasons why the World Health Organization released this measles immunisation data.

“This review [By the Australian Government’s Department of Health] has demonstrated that the quality and representativeness of the data collected by the Victorian passive surveillance system is questionable.”

“The term “outbreak” is generally used when the number of cases observed is greater that the number
normally expected in the same geographic area for the same period of time. The definition of an
“outbreak” will vary according to the phase of measles control. For instance, a single case may
mark an outbreak in a country aiming at elimination. The occurrence of a measles outbreak in a
highly immunized population does not necessarily represent a failure of the routine immunization
program. Investigation of outbreaks provides an opportunity to identify high-risk groups, changes
in measles epidemiology, weaknesses in the routine immunization programme or in the
management of measles cases. When an outbreak occurs that has not been predicted, or could not be
prevented, the response needs to be rapid, since measles is highly infectious and spreads rapidly.”